The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SCROOGE
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More clues leading to the result SCROOGE
- Skinflint's self-esteem evil goblins lifted
- Unfortunate score, own goal let in, seeing Ebenezer?
- Grasping fellow with arrogance, monsters rising up
- One tight score revised, letting in own goal
- Score mistakenly, netting own goal? He’s not normally one to give anything away
- Tightwad‘s self-esteem Tolkienian baddies lifted
- Bloke under the influence of spirits creosoting draining can, drunk
- One troubled by the past, present and future?
- Mean character‘s goose cooked with credit being restricted
- His Christmas present was one of three
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The straight part
We know that "Bloke under the influence of spirits" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case bloke under the influence of spirits = scrooge.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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